Photos: Celebrity heroes

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Jennifer Lawrence found her inner Katniss Everdeen when the Hunger Games actress came to the aid of a stranger. An unidentified woman fainted on the lawn outside Lawrence's Santa Monica home, June 25, 2012, and according to the Daily Mail, Lawrence and another bystander went to her aid, calling 911 and staying with the woman until a paramedic arrived.

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When one of Mila Kunis' staffers fell into a violent seizure at her home, the Black Swan actress rushed to his aid, placing him in the recovery position and staying by his side until an ambulance arrived. It's unclear whether she administered CPR, though a guy can dream.Getty Images
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Ryan Gosling continues to make New York City a safer place, one heroic deed at a time. British journalist Laurie Penny tweeted about how Gosling saved her from being hit by an approaching cab. Previously, video of the Canadian actor breaking up a NYC street-fight went viral.Getty Images
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Patrick Dempsey made good on his character's nickname when he McDreamily rushed to save a teenage driver who had flipped his car next to Dempsey's Malibu digs.Getty Images
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Kate Winslet has been credited with carrying Sir Richard Branson's 90-year-old mother out of a house fire that destroyed the main home on his private island.Getty Images
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Tom Cruise has probably saved more people than any other actor. In March 1996, Cruise witnessed a hit-and-run accident on Wilshire Boulevard. He stopped, made sure someone called an ambulance, and then paid the woman's $7,000 ER bill when he found out she wasn't insured. At the Mission Impossible premiere, he helped two young boys who were pinned against the crowd-control fence. And while on his yacht with then-wife Nicole Kidman near Capri, he spotted five people bobbing in the water as their 63-foot sailboat sank nearby and sent his skiff over to rescue them.Getty Images
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You never know what tomorrow may bring. For instance, maybe T.I. will talk you off of a ledge. The rapper made headlines (that were weird, even for him) when the Atlanta Journal-Constitutionreported that he'd come to the rescue of a would-be jumper. Hearing a radio report that a man was threatening to jump from a skyscraper, T.I. raced to the scene, where he offered his assistance to local police. "To assure him that it was really me they recorded a video message on the cop's cell phone and took it up to him," T.I. told TMZ. "Fifteen minutes later the guy came down peacefully." The rapper also spoke about the incident with the Associated Press, saying, "I just reminded him ... it looks bad right now, but it can turn around."Getty Images
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Harrison Ford (a licensed pilot) rescued two female hikers who were stranded on Idaho's Table Mountain in 2000. In 2001, he air-lifted a 13-year-old boy to safety after he got lost overnight in Yellowstone National Park.Getty Images
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Alex Trebek snapped his Achilles tendon while chasing a burglar at a San Francisco hotel.Getty Images
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Garth Brooks helped evacuate five people in Collinsville, Okla., after seeing that their houses were right in the path of a raging grass fire.Getty Images
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Demi Moore was credited for reaching out to two suicidal fans on Twitter and getting them the help they needed.Getty Images
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Matthew McConaughey rushed to the aid of a woman who collapsed during a screening of his film at the Toronto International Film Festival.Getty Images
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After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Sean Penn co-founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization and has been running a 55,000 person tent camp. He also went to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and went around plucking people out of the water in a motorboat. According to witnesses, Penn transported roughly 40 people who were stuck in their flooded homes to dry land and made sure they received medical aid.Getty Images
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